Patrick Woodroffe, the genius behind the Olympic lighting displays, shows us his top five books

From inventing colours to designing the Olympic Games, we take a look at the extraordinary work of Otl Aicher

Patrick Savile on designing Yuto Horigome’s Olympic gold medal-winning skateboard

Graphic Design: Markus Osterwalder has a staggering collection of Olympic designs

Olympic Games – The Design

Bookshelf: Illustrator and designer Owen Gildersleeve shares some of his favourite tomes

Stellar designer Peter Mendelsund lets us snoop around in his thoughts...

A self-combusting book and more from graphic designer Patrick Oltean

Ryan Todd's Olympic app graphics among a host of excellent updates from an in-form illustrator

Bookshelf: Designer Claude d'Avoine tells us about his colour-coded book collection

Sports, westerns and human connection: Clémentine Oberkampf tells it all in her pencil drawings

Patrick Savile’s dreamy designs draw from 70s airbrush art, Roger Dean and Turing patterns

Walter Hugo : Reflecting the Bright Lights